There may have been a time when even parties founded on the ecclesiastical basis were a necessity. At that time Liberalism was opposed to the Church, while Marxism was anti-religious. But that time is past. National Socialism neither opposes the Church nor is it anti-religious, but on the contrary, it stands on the ground of a real Christianity. The Church's interests cannot fail to coincide with ours alike in our fight against the symptoms of degeneracy in the world of to-day, in our fight against the Bolshevist culture, against an atheistic movement, against criminality, and in our struggle for the consciousness of a community in our national life, for the conquest of hatred and disunion between the classes, for the conquest of civil war and unrest, of strife and discord. These are not anti-Christian, these are Christian principles.

During negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordat of April 26, 1933 Hitler argued that:

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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith

Hitler stated in a speech to the Stuttgart February 15, 1933:

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Today they say that Christianity is in danger, that the Catholic faith is threatened. My reply to them is: for the time being, Christians and not international atheists are now standing at Germanys fore. I am not merely talking about Christianity; I confess that I will never ally myself with the parties which aim to destroy Christianity. Fourteen years they have gone arm in arm with atheism. At no time was greater damage ever done to Christianity than in those years when the Christian parties ruled side by side with those who denied the very existence of God. Germany's entire cultural life was shattered and contaminated in this period. It shall be our task to burn out these manifestations of degeneracy in literature, theater, schools, and the pressthat is, in our entire cultureand to eliminate the poison which has been permeating every facet of our lives for these past fourteen years.

In a speech delivered in Berlin, October 24, 1933, Hitler stated:

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We have undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.

Two things are certain. TS is an idiot and Hitler used Christian churches as part of his propaganda machine. Killing "in the name of atheism" is a bit absurdly funny though. "Do you believe in god?" Yes. "Then die motherfer!" ***machinegun fire***